...you. Hark ! Here comes the merry fellow, now. You shall see that there is no harm in him." Bartram and his little son, while they were talking thus,...IDEA was first developed. The kiln, however, on the mountain side stood unimpaired, and was in nothing changed since he had thrown his dark thoughts into...

...startle you. Hark! Here comes the merry fellow now. You shall see that there is no harm in him." Bartram and his little son, while they were talking thus,...years, as we have seen, had now elapsed, since that poFteatous night when the IDEA was first developed. The kiln, however, on the mountain-side, stood...

...you. Hark! Here conies the merry fellow now. You shall see that there is no harm in him." 5 Bartram and his little son, while they were talking thus,...years, as we have seen, had now elapsed, since that por10 lentous night when the IDEA was first developed. The kiln, however, on the mountain-side, stood...

...shall see that there is no harm in him." Bartram and his little son, while they were talking thus, 5 sat watching the same lime-kiln that had been the...night when the IDEA was first developed. The kiln, 10 however, on the mountain-side stood unimpaired, and was in nothing changed since he had thrown his...

...same lime-kiln that had been the scene of Ethan Brand's solitary and meditative life, before he 25 began his search for the Unpardonable Sin. Many years,...however, on the mountain-side, stood unimpaired, and was 5n nothing changed since he had thrown his dark thoughts into the intense glow of its furnace, and...

...startle you. Hark! Here comes the merry fellow now. You shall see that there is no harm in him." Bartram and his little son, while they were talking thus,...Ethan Brand's solitary and meditative life, before he 25 began his search for the Unpardonable Sin. Many years, as we have seen, had now elapsed, since that...

...startle you. Hark! Here comes the merry fellow now. You shall see that there is no harm in him." Bartram and his little son, while they were talking thus,...Ethan Brand's solitary and meditative life, before he 25 began his search for the Unpardonable Sin. Many years, as we have seen, had now elapsed, since that...

...of the reader backward or forward that the greatest care is needed. Notice what follows : "Bart-ram and his little son, while they were talking thus,...began his search for the Unpardonable Sin. Many years had now elapsed since that night when the idea was first developed. The kiln, however, stood unimpaired...

...the characterization of Ethan Brand's motives. First: We have to do with a return to origins. This is "the same lime-kiln that had been the scene of Ethan...before he began his search for the Unpardonable Sin." Here had occurred "that portentous night when the IDEA was first developed." What kind of act belonged...

...to all Americans of that day. There had been an earlier lime-burner, one Ethan Brand, who had led a solitary and meditative life, "before he began his search for the Unpardonable Sin," an "IDEA [sic]" that overtook him and drove him out of the village, into the night, and down an ever-darkening...